Newt Gingrich’s latest — and most blatant — hypocrisy

Former Speaker of the HouseNewt Gingrich, the Republican bomb thrower who turned dissension into public policy, now says he is “sick and tired” of candidates who deploy divisive tactics.

Now Gingrich says he is the candidate to “unite America.”

Say what?

“I want to be a President for all Americans,” Gingrich said Wednesday.

This from the man who turned the U.S. Congress into a political divide larger than the Grand Canyon. This from the man who — as Speaker — turned Congress into a backbiting snake pit where compromise became a dirty word and coalitions sank into a swamp of mud-slinging.

Gingrich, who has tried to re-invent himself multiple times in the constant ebb and flow of a turbulent GOP campaign season, now thinks he can sell himself as a healer.

A daunting challenge for any candidate but an impossible one for a serial adulterer who campaigns on family values.

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Doug Thompson published his first story and photo at age 11 -- a newspaper article about racism and the Klan in Prince Edward County, VA, in 1958. From that point on, he decided to become a newspaperman and did just that -- reporting news and taking photos full-time at his hometown paper, becoming the youngest full-time reporter at The Roanoke Times in Virginia in 1965 and spent most of the past 55+ years covering news around the country and the globe. After a short sabbatical as a political operative in Washington in the 1980s, he returned to the news profession in 1992. Today, he is a contract reporter/photojournalist for BHMedia and owns Capitol Hill Blue and other news websites.

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Doug, thanks for the image of a pit full of snakes biting each others backs, Nice turn of phrase. I visualized the Indiana Jones “Raider of the Lost Ark” scene – with all of us Harrison Ford. Of course all the real snakes in the movie were harmless.

I Googled snake pit which reminded me of the film “The Snake Pit”

The Snake Pit is a 1948 film which tells the story of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there. In common metaphorical usage, a snake pit can mean any institution (such as a school, prison, hospital, or nursing home) or organization led in an inept or inhumane way, or an institution containing many people who may be hostile, untrustworthy, or otherwise treacherous.

Nuff said on that….

Woody, good job, Newt sure fits the definition of flibbertigibbet (a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person )…. moonbeam fits too – although maybe moonbeamer would take any ambiguity out of the reference.

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